Minor and basically unrelated but it’s dice, not dices. Like sheep, it’s singular and plural.
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#12Minor and basically unrelated but it’s dice, not dices. Like sheep, it’s singular and plural.
Well, die is the singular.
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#13Minor and basically unrelated but it’s dice, not dices. Like sheep, it’s singular and plural.
The singular is "die" not "dice".
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#14Maybe someone should do a solver for this CAPTCHA and put the code on GitHub. It does look really easy to solve using Machine Learning.
If I was a betting man, I’d wager the reason why they give these weirder types of challenges is because solving CAPTCHAs means you’re labelling them, which gives who ever is hosting it labelled data to train their own models against. that’s why CAPTCHAs sometimes ask ppl to spot all the zebra crossings and stuff etc - no machine can solve it yet, so ppl can do it, and by doing it and solving it, you produce a labelle…
That's how hCaptcha does it
https://www.hcaptcha.com/labeling
You play to get a dataset labelled and trained.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume they’re trying to fight against bots buying up “hot” Airbnbs that sell out quickly. It’s a weird captcha for sure, but understandable why they wouldn’t want bots accessing the site.
Does this actually happen??
And why would they care if it did, if the robots are "buying" the properties, implying payment?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume they’re trying to fight against bots buying up “hot” Airbnbs that sell out quickly. It’s a weird captcha for sure, but understandable why they wouldn’t want bots accessing the site.
Wait, what does a robot do once it rents a house?
Dream of electric sheep?
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#17I don't see why if I got my credentials right, I have to prove I am not a robot. What if I wanted a robot to access my account on my behalf?
No can do.
You would be in breach of the AirBNB terms of service: "Do not use bots, crawlers, scrapers or other automated means to access or collect data or other content from or otherwise interact with the Airbnb Platform. "
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#18Minor and basically unrelated but it’s dice, not dices. Like sheep, it’s singular and plural.
I think we should just let the language treadmill do its thing. Singular: dices, plural: diceses.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume they’re trying to fight against bots buying up “hot” Airbnbs that sell out quickly. It’s a weird captcha for sure, but understandable why they wouldn’t want bots accessing the site.
Does this actually happen??
It is a way to bankrupt competing Airbnb properties. Book them all up with hundreds of fake accounts with stolen credit cards.
Nobody ends up staying in them, but it can bankrupt the Airbnb host pretty quickly if they have many properties on highly leveraged mortgages.
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#20At least they don't make you work for a company you possibly detest, like RECAPCHA forcing you to work for Google. It often boggles my mind how serious businesses do that kind of thing to their customers.